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Honestly can’t tell if Civil Society believes that copyright-breaking LibGen & SciHub are rebel heroes or piratical villains
The EFF seem in favour, Wired not so much. Overall civil society seems undecided; or is it only a problem if you take all this data that’s already copyright-broken and lying around on Russian websites, and then feed it into a Large Language Model rather than Adobe Acrobat? EFF: “…Sci-Hub, a project to provide free
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I just want to take this unparalleled opportunity, by example, to demonstrate how “we must force social network platforms to be more transparent” will make policy debate more toxic
Elon Musk and his henchvolk roam free though the fields of US Government data, and this has led to amateur political analysis of data, even stuff that has been available to the public for many years, with bias and without understanding, let alone context. Fanatics + Politics + Data = Prolific Misinformation This is a
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Reminder: merely a few months ago we were all worried about audio & video “deep fakes” and now even the Guardian is extolling their positive uses
Of course, they may not realise that that is what they are doing. Daisy is, of course, not a real grandmother but an AI bot created by computer scientists to combat fraud. Her task is simply to waste the time of the people who are trying to scam her. O2 rolled out “AI granny” Daisy
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Musk’s Takeover Of The Government’s Computer Systems Needs To Be Understood As A Cyberattack, Or Worse | Techdirt
This is the correct take from Mike; I wonder if the UK government – and UK industrial regulation – will permit themselves to consider it this way? The nation’s infrastructure has just been attacked by the prototypical example of a rogue actor, acting lawlessly, with openly declared hostile intent aiming to disrupt the operation of
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Surely we should be calling this “The Spook-Hawley AI Censorship Act”?
I hate it when I’m right; back in 2023 I wrote: (3) If the Government is encouraged to suppress general access to code, it will attempt to do so; and then the suppressions will fail several years, perhaps a few decades, later. …comparing this to the old ITAR regime; see also my more recent blogpost
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Asking Elon Musk’s own Grok AI about US Trade Tariffs, and, well…
Inspired by a post on Twitter comes this from Grok; I feel it’s understating the impact but broadly in the right direction. Presumably Donald is focused on the last-paragraph opportunity to cut some short-term deals by squandering long-term political capital. Would it be a good idea for the USA to impose sweeping 25% trade tariffs
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Former UN Rapporteur David Kaye: “for anyone who ever argued for key escrows, i offer you the example of the muskovites rampaging through USG systems” | Ofcom, please take note…
…but of course I’m certain that it could never happen here. <cough>Reform Party</cough>
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Fully documented source code for Elite on the 6502 | … I spent days, weeks playing this
Fully documented source code for Elite on the BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, Commodore 64, Apple II and NES https://elite.bbcelite.com/ Via: https://www.threads.net/@yannlecun/post/DFiQfC2TrxP
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AI “Safety” researchers finally have to face the question of whether they want LLMs to be *good* at state censorship, or to be *bad* at state censorship?
Do you want a fast, free Chinese LLM to be good at blocking user prompts & output? Do you want such blocking to be global or to differ depending on the user’s suspected nationality? Do you actually want it to be good at censorship? Cisco and the University of Pennsylvania tested DeepSeek R1 with 50
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If you are a fan of classic COSMOS with Carl Sagan, you will probably love the UK’s Open University S354 “UNDERSTANDING SPACE & TIME”
When I was a young nerdling I would get up early Saturday to switch on the TV, and of the three, later four TV channels that we had the one I would go to for early entertainment at 6:30 a.m. was BBC 2 Open University. And this is what I would watch, religiously: https://archive.org/details/OUBBCS354Ep1Of17BeforeEinsteinUnderstandingSpaceTime/OU+BBC+S354+Ep+01+of+17+Before+Einstein+(Understanding+Space+%26+Time).mp4
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General Michael Hayden: “The NSA Cryptologic Museum are Censoring Women” | …this is an abomination
You HAVE to look at this picture; given that Hayden is ex-DIRNSA, I believe him. Quote: “Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.”
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Don’t use an LLM to generate a random number or to generate passwords
Just click to read the enormity of 4 pages of biased overthinking that it ploughs into “choose a random number between 1 and 100”
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